i deserved that.
today my sister and i saw valerian and the city of a thousand planets which was visually fabulous and crazy and inventive and fun, and otherwise, uh, well, luc besson wrote the screenplay and he can't write. dane dehaan and cara delevigne have an unconvincing, uneven, cliche-ridden, and chemistry-free romance, and i can't tell if she can't act or if it's just the writing and direction. dane dehaan can do better. (in terms of leading ladies and characters he gets to play.) john goodman has a voice cameo that i liked, and ethan hawke has a cameo that rendered him almost unrecognizable (he wears a hat that covers half his face) but that i also enjoyed, and rihanna's intro scene seemed to exist solely to have a pretty girl doing some exotic dancing in an assortment of sexy outfits but i still ended up liking her. alpha, the city of the title, is haphazard and messy and really looks like a city that grew bit by bit over hundreds of years without any overall plan. and! a thing probably only i would care about! all of cara delevigne's footwear has flat heels! any other scifi action movie would at least put her in wedge-heeled boots, but no! i think it's because any heel would make her taller than dane dehaan, not out of any practicality or costume logic. but i'll take it where i can get it, especially since she spends half the movie in a kind of police armor with molded boob cups. (i rolled my eyes a lot.)
my sister loved it, which i think is so weird but kind of cool, because i never would've pegged her for a ridiculous-scifi-movie fan. and it's kind of ridiculous. but did i mention that it looks really cool? because it looks really cool.
before that i met tamalinn for lunch(ish) and coffee, and i had a muffin first and then an egg and cheese sandwich because sometimes i'm a bottomless pit. >.< and before that i got my hairs cut, which is very exciting even if i'm still kind of itchy from all the tiny hairs. but it's shorter and cute, so yay.
lots and lots of free belle epoque posters.
the oldest unopened bottle of wine - it's 1600 years old and no one knows what would happen if it was opened, so no one has opened it.
this guy makes scale models of cross-sections of ww1 trenches, with the parts labeled, even.
...i seem to have discovered my modern met.
in a heartbeat, a tremendously adorable animated short. so, so cute.
solar-powered bike lane in poland. it's blue!
this is just a very interesting article about pacific-coast first nations and how they're preserving their culture and traditional clam gardens.
a ted talk about cohousing, which i think is a neat idea but i'm not sure i could live like that. it's a little too close to forced socialization for me. so i don't think it's for everyone, but i like the idea.
claressa shields, the real million dollar baby. (she's a boxer.)
nasa is looking for a planetary protection officer. yes, it's a real thing.
and in conclusion, have a food pun.
it's from a pizza place in davis square. i just think the shrimp are so cute.
my sister loved it, which i think is so weird but kind of cool, because i never would've pegged her for a ridiculous-scifi-movie fan. and it's kind of ridiculous. but did i mention that it looks really cool? because it looks really cool.
before that i met tamalinn for lunch(ish) and coffee, and i had a muffin first and then an egg and cheese sandwich because sometimes i'm a bottomless pit. >.< and before that i got my hairs cut, which is very exciting even if i'm still kind of itchy from all the tiny hairs. but it's shorter and cute, so yay.
lots and lots of free belle epoque posters.
the oldest unopened bottle of wine - it's 1600 years old and no one knows what would happen if it was opened, so no one has opened it.
this guy makes scale models of cross-sections of ww1 trenches, with the parts labeled, even.
...i seem to have discovered my modern met.
in a heartbeat, a tremendously adorable animated short. so, so cute.
solar-powered bike lane in poland. it's blue!
this is just a very interesting article about pacific-coast first nations and how they're preserving their culture and traditional clam gardens.
a ted talk about cohousing, which i think is a neat idea but i'm not sure i could live like that. it's a little too close to forced socialization for me. so i don't think it's for everyone, but i like the idea.
claressa shields, the real million dollar baby. (she's a boxer.)
nasa is looking for a planetary protection officer. yes, it's a real thing.
and in conclusion, have a food pun.
it's from a pizza place in davis square. i just think the shrimp are so cute.